Yesterday, while out at lunch, Isaac and I realized we were coming up on our fifth wedding anniversary in April, and we went shopping for anniversary bands. My, how time flies. It's been five years? Really? My mother didn't think we'd make it through the first year - and she tried her best to make sure we didn't!

You know, there's a very special Johnny Cash icon for my response to that. :)

Gotta hand it to my grumpybear for remembering the date; I *still* can't, much to my dismay (I get the month right; for the life of me I can't remember the day for some reason or other).  In that case, having this would be cool as hell: http://www.alaskajewelry.com/remember-rings-never-forget-anniversary-p-2040.html

Presently I'm sitting at work, somewhat bored as hell, but triumphant. Cause, by god, I made it in last Friday through the snow and got paid 2 free hours of PTO for making it. Got an email today that said we took over 1000 calls on my team that day when half the team didn't make it. Dear god - I was so hyped up on adrenalin after that day I chattered like a magpie all evening and went to sleep late.

Man, I was never so glad that my Monday off was approved. I needed it after that day. And compared to Friday, today's sooooooo quiet. I get calls occasionally, but with everyone back, the load's really spread out. I've only got one call to make today that's going to be somewhat aggravating, and if that job didn't go through I have no idea what I'm going to do. Scream, cry, hurt my client manager.... :)

Anyway, this gives me time to hunt down the imperative form of 'to break' in Japanese. OH GOD I HATE JAPANESE VERBS. I think it's 'orere' but I can't be sure....

Speaking of Japanese....Fetishes for Everyone, better known as Cutey Honey The LIVE, continues to be the most awesome show in history.
I will say that , yeah, it's most definitely not for everyone. There isn't an ep that goes by that I don't find myself going "Oh, *Japan*."

There's this teacher with this thing for teenage female violinists on pedestals...she covers them with cheesecloth and spits up raw eggs on them, and...No, I'm not kidding. And I just saw the entry of the fourth Panther Claw Big Bad. She fights with frozen fish. And heatseeking missiles. Compared to these two, the first two bosses are freaking TAME.  I mean, come on, Duke Watari (happy sigh the man is hot - shave Mark Musashi and bring him to my tent, yo!) just fights with footblades and the other kid's got razor feathers.

 The introduction of the girl who would be Sister Yuki during the Kidnapping and Triple Date From HELL episodes made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe. And now that Sister Miki knows about the two of them, and Cutey remains as clueless as ever, it's about to get *really* interesting. Probably not kinky, but interesting nonetheless.

Okay, Toku fans - I just saw the first ep of Kamen Rider Kiva  over the weekend as well, and it looks very very promising. The pace was a tad confusing for the first ep - they're following plotlines that started in 1986, and then they flip to the ramifications of those plots with the new generation of fighters in 2008. And we've got a space vampire thing going. Which, I suppose, makes Kiva some sort of high powered dhampir or something.

I like this show for several reasons: 
1. ROCKING opening song. And very stylish opening credits. Hot young men covered in rosepetals - it's like the show was made just for me.
2. We're dropped in medias res with a Kamen Rider WHO KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON.  Can you tell I really am tired of  protagonists slowly discovering their power over the course of the show? Oh, and the opening scene with him apologizing to the cat for trying to steal its dinner was among the cutest scenes I have ever witnessed in a KR show.
3. The girl who played Sailor Luna in PGSM  is playing his sidekick. I literally went "Wait, she looks familiar..." *wiki check* OMG SAILOR LUNA? Boy, she's grown.
4. Jumpkicking female martial artist that's doing it for herself. And she has the most useful gun evar.
5. Awesome monster design theme this time around. Stained glass animals. Niiiiiice.

I dislike this show for a few reasons: 
1. The accursed robotic bat sidekick that triggers the change - okay, maybe it's just the use of him in the utterly cool opening credits that I hate. Okay, I'm not fond of him having to bite Kiva to trigger the henshin, though it's in theme....
2. The dragon building. You will be as much 'whaaa?' over that dragon building as I. I really hope they don't use that footage all that much....
3. Timeflipping. I may get used to that eventually, but still...

Can't wait to see more of it and see if it lives up to my expectations.